I'm continually shocked at the lack of options when it comes to having 16GB of memory in a MBP
Chromebook Pixel
System76 Galago
Anything else that even exists?
Dell XPS 13 Developer Edition
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#22I know some are disappointed by the lack of ram in the XPS 13. If you need a beefer laptop there is another Dell "Project Sputnik" (aka Ubuntu) laptop the Precision M3800. http://www.dell.com/learn/us/en/555/campaigns/xps-linux-lapt...
It is more comparable to a Mac Book Pro and can be configured with 16 GB of memory as well as the hi res display.
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#23To ask those complaining about 8gb not being enough... Please name one thing that won't allow you to do which is crucial in your day to day workflow. I'm not saying i don't believe you, I'm just genuinely curious. Edit: Looking at this thread, I have to say there has to be a cause and effect here somewhere. You have a million web-developers saying they need more than 8GB to use Chrome to surf web-pages and web-apps.…
From yesterday: I compile a large C++ code base in work, and a full rebuild takes about 15 minutes on my 40 core, 32GB ram desktop, and uses almost 20GB of RAM while doing so.
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#248GB max RAM kind of rules it out for any heavy duty development.
It's not trying to be a machine for 'heavy development'. It's trying to be a Dell/Linux option for people who would otherwise buy a MacBook Air.
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#258GB max RAM kind of rules it out for any heavy duty development.
I'd be concerned when trying to run a VM or two. Since it's Ubuntu, it should have native Docker support so resource usage may not be all that bad?
Docker (and containers) are not a replacement for a VM. Sometimes you really do need a completely different OS running isolated... like emulating a cluster of independent servers, etc.
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#26To ask those complaining about 8gb not being enough... Please name one thing that won't allow you to do which is crucial in your day to day workflow. I'm not saying i don't believe you, I'm just genuinely curious. Edit: Looking at this thread, I have to say there has to be a cause and effect here somewhere. You have a million web-developers saying they need more than 8GB to use Chrome to surf web-pages and web-apps.…
Run an OS X VM in order to illicitly develop iOS apps.
Run a Windows 8 VM to work on legit Windows apps.
Run both VM's at the same time.
Anything under 16 GB is unacceptable to me.
Developer edition? Nope, not really. I need Linux, Windows and OS X. So my only option remains, as ever, a macbook pro with 16GB RAM.
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#27Devil's advocate time!
What's to keep Dell from heavily customizing and releasing / packaging a version of Ubuntu in the same vein that apple customized, released, packaged nextstep as OS X? The only thing I can think of would be "talent at the company". And I know next to nothing about the internals of dell, let alone what they've done since being repurchased and privatized.
Kind of a fun thought, even if it's a little far fetched.
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#28the lack of a native ethernet port rules it out for any operations work that requires working on the datacenter floor. actually this is a frustrating trend, native ethernet adapters are 0 cost to CPU instructions, I know you can use thunderbolt (and I've not looked at the spec in detail) but USB ethernet controllers use the CPU when plugged in- and I'm not a large fan of that honestly. what happened to the very small…
Unless you need to use a crossover cable, why not just add a wireless hub to your DC LAN? We have one at our DC, but it's only ~3 cabs worth of equipment, so YMMV.
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#29To ask those complaining about 8gb not being enough... Please name one thing that won't allow you to do which is crucial in your day to day workflow. I'm not saying i don't believe you, I'm just genuinely curious. Edit: Looking at this thread, I have to say there has to be a cause and effect here somewhere. You have a million web-developers saying they need more than 8GB to use Chrome to surf web-pages and web-apps.…
From yesterday: I compile a large C++ code base in work, and a full rebuild takes about 15 minutes on my 40 core, 32GB ram desktop, and uses almost 20GB of RAM while doing so.
I think it’s fair to say that your use case lies outside the current performance envelope available in laptop form :)
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#30To ask those complaining about 8gb not being enough... Please name one thing that won't allow you to do which is crucial in your day to day workflow. I'm not saying i don't believe you, I'm just genuinely curious. Edit: Looking at this thread, I have to say there has to be a cause and effect here somewhere. You have a million web-developers saying they need more than 8GB to use Chrome to surf web-pages and web-apps.…
Running eclipse. I wish I was joking.
(I'm pretty sure it's shoddy third-party addons rather than eclipse itself - a clean eclipse can run fine in <1gb - but either way I end up in the same place)